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Chinese
Pronunciation
| Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
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| Character
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遊
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戲
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| Reading #
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1/1
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1/1
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Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
|
yóu
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xì
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Middle
Chinese
|
‹ yuw ›
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‹ xjeH ›
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Old
Chinese
|
/*ru/
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/*ŋ̊(r)ar-s/
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| English
|
wander about
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sport, joke
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Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:
* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;
* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
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| Zhengzhang system (2003)
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| Character
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遊
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戲
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| Reading #
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1/1
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2/3
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| No.
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15546
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5195
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Phonetic
component
|
斿
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虍
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Rime
group
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幽
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歌
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Rime
subdivision
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1
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1
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Corresponding
MC rime
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猷
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戲
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Old
Chinese
|
/*lu/
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/*qʰrals/
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| Notes
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同遊
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Noun
遊戲
- game (playful or competitive activity, except sport)
- (specifically) video game
- 遊戲玩家／游戏玩家 ― yóuxì wánjiā ― video gamer
- 主機遊戲／主机游戏 ― zhǔjī yóuxì ― console game
Verb
遊戲
- to play
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
Japanese
| For pronunciation and definitions of 遊戲 – see the following entry.
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| (This term, 遊戲, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)
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Vietnamese
Verb
遊戲
- chữ Hán form of du hí (“to go sightseeing, to travel around, to tour around”).